Strong G4127πληγή
plague/blow/wound
- Transliteration
- plēgē
- Pronunciation
- play-gay'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From G4141; a stroke; by implication a wound; figuratively a calamity: - plague stripe wound (-ed).
Detailed definition
πληγή, ῆς, ἡ
(πλήσσω), [in LXX chiefly for מַכָּה, also for מַגֵּפָה etc.;]
1. a blow, stripe, wound: pl., Luk.10:30 12:48, Act.16:23, 33, 2Co.6:5 11:23; ἡ π. τ. θανάτου (RV, death-stroke), Rev.13:3, 12; τ. μαχαίρας, Rev.13:14.
2. Metaphorical, a calamity, plague: Rev.9:18, 20 11:6 15:1, 6 15:8 16:9, 21 18:4, 8 21:9 22:18.†
(AS)
(πλήσσω), [in LXX chiefly for מַכָּה, also for מַגֵּפָה etc.;]
1. a blow, stripe, wound: pl., Luk.10:30 12:48, Act.16:23, 33, 2Co.6:5 11:23; ἡ π. τ. θανάτου (RV, death-stroke), Rev.13:3, 12; τ. μαχαίρας, Rev.13:14.
2. Metaphorical, a calamity, plague: Rev.9:18, 20 11:6 15:1, 6 15:8 16:9, 21 18:4, 8 21:9 22:18.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4127 appears in 20 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- plague11
- stripe5
- wound4
- of1
First verses
- Luke 10:30And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
- Luke 12:48But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
- Acts 16:23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
- Acts 16:33And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
- 2 Corinthians 6:5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
- 2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
- Revelation 9:20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
- Revelation 11:6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
- Revelation 13:3And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
- Revelation 13:12And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
- Revelation 13:14And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
- Revelation 15:1And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
- Revelation 15:6And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
- Revelation 15:8And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
- Revelation 16:9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
- Revelation 16:21And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
- Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
- Revelation 18:8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
- Revelation 21:9And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
- Revelation 22:18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πληγ-ή,
Doric dialect πλᾱγά, ἡ, (πλήσσω) blow, stroke, πεπληγὼν πληγῇσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.264, etc.; πᾶν ἑρπετὸν πληγῇ νέμεται 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 11, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 109b, 3rd c.BC: Erasistratus Medicus cited in Pseudo-Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Ther.” 18; ἡ π. τοῦ τραύματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 877b)]: frequently joined with Verbs of cognate signification, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1343; τύπτει τὰς ἴσας πληγὰς ἐμοί 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 636)]; τύπτεσθαι τῇ δημοσίᾳ μάστιγι ν πληγάς Legal cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.139; πολλὰς πληγὰς μαστιγούσθω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 914b (but in such phrases πληγήν or πληγάς)] is frequently omitted, τρίτην ἐπενδίδωμι [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1386; τυπτόμενος πολλάς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 972, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.197; ὀλίγας παῖσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.12; μαστιγωθεὶς ὁπόσας ἂν δόξῃ τοῖς δικασταῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 854d, compare 879e, NT.2Cor.11.24): the person struck is said πληγὰς λαβεῖν, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 673; ὑπὸ τῶν ῥαβδούχων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.50, etc.; πληγῶν δεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 493; πληγὴν ἔχω 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 72; ὑπὸ τὴν π. τοῦ ἀκοντίου ὑπελθεῖν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.4)]; καιρίῃ (i.e. πληγῇ) τετύφθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.64; πληγὰς ὑπομένειν 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 4.6; εἰληφέναι καὶ δεδωκέναι πληγάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.14)]; π. ἐμβαλεῖν, ἐντείνειν τινί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.11, 2.4.11, etc.; πατάξαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 527d; ἐντρίβειν τινί 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 25, compare “Somn.” 14; προστρίβεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 5; τὰς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων πληγὰς μαστιγοῦν τινα 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.59; πληγὴν ἐπὶ πληγῇ φέρειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.33.6; π. παρὰ πληγήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 643)]; πληγαῖς ζημιοῦν, κολάζειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.74, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 762c, etc.; δίκη ὕβρεως ἢ πληγῶν “PHal.” 1.115 (3rd c.BC))]; πληγῆς ἄρχειν strike the first blow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.2)]; τὰς π. στέγειν, of the shell of a tortoise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1295.)]
2 stroke by lightning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 857 (_plural_))]; πλαγαὶ σιδάρου strokes of axe or sword, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.246, “O.” 10(11).37; κλυδωνίου.. πληγαῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 796)]; στέρνων πλαγαί beating of breasts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 90 (_anapaest meter_))]; π. τῶν ὀδόντων strokes from boars' tusks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.5)]; spearing of fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 824 (_plural_))]; of pig-sticking, οἱ κάπροι οἱ πρὸς τὴν π... ὠθούμενοι [Refs ([prev. author] “Euthd.” 294d)]: in singular, fight with clubs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.63.)]
3 stroke or impression on the ears or eyes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67b, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.490c, etc.; αἱ νοήσεις τύποι ἔσονται· εἰ δὲ τοῦτο, καὶ ἐπακτοὶ καὶ πληγαί 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.5.1.)]
4 impact of bodies, atoms, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 308, “Placita Philosophorum” 1.4.2, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.6.19.)]
5 beat of the pulse, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.464.)]
6 metaphorically, blow, stroke of calamity, especially in war, ἐν μιᾷ π. κατέφθαρται.. ὄλβος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 251, compare “Hellenica Oxyrhynchia” 16.2; ἐν πληγαῖς ὄντες [prev. passage]; πληγὴν ὑπήνεγκεν ἡ πόλις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1270a33; πληγῇ περιπεπτωκέναι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 14.9.6; πληγαὶ βιότου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 933 (_anapaest meter_))]; π. Διός α heaven-sent plague, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ag.” 367 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 137 (_anapaest meter_))]; μὴ 'κ θεοῦ π. τις ἥκει[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 279; δμαθέντες πλαγαῖσι ποντίαισιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 908 (Lyric poetry))]; of the ten plagues of Egypt, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.9.4.)]
Doric dialect πλᾱγά, ἡ, (πλήσσω) blow, stroke, πεπληγὼν πληγῇσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.264, etc.; πᾶν ἑρπετὸν πληγῇ νέμεται 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 11, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 109b, 3rd c.BC: Erasistratus Medicus cited in Pseudo-Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Ther.” 18; ἡ π. τοῦ τραύματος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 877b)]: frequently joined with Verbs of cognate signification, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγήν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1343; τύπτει τὰς ἴσας πληγὰς ἐμοί 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 636)]; τύπτεσθαι τῇ δημοσίᾳ μάστιγι ν πληγάς Legal cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.139; πολλὰς πληγὰς μαστιγούσθω 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 914b (but in such phrases πληγήν or πληγάς)] is frequently omitted, τρίτην ἐπενδίδωμι [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1386; τυπτόμενος πολλάς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 972, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.197; ὀλίγας παῖσαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.12; μαστιγωθεὶς ὁπόσας ἂν δόξῃ τοῖς δικασταῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 854d, compare 879e, NT.2Cor.11.24): the person struck is said πληγὰς λαβεῖν, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 673; ὑπὸ τῶν ῥαβδούχων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.50, etc.; πληγῶν δεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 493; πληγὴν ἔχω 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 72; ὑπὸ τὴν π. τοῦ ἀκοντίου ὑπελθεῖν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.4.4)]; καιρίῃ (i.e. πληγῇ) τετύφθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.64; πληγὰς ὑπομένειν 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 4.6; εἰληφέναι καὶ δεδωκέναι πληγάς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.14)]; π. ἐμβαλεῖν, ἐντείνειν τινί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.11, 2.4.11, etc.; πατάξαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 527d; ἐντρίβειν τινί 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 25, compare “Somn.” 14; προστρίβεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 5; τὰς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων πληγὰς μαστιγοῦν τινα 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.59; πληγὴν ἐπὶ πληγῇ φέρειν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.33.6; π. παρὰ πληγήν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 643)]; πληγαῖς ζημιοῦν, κολάζειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.74, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 762c, etc.; δίκη ὕβρεως ἢ πληγῶν “PHal.” 1.115 (3rd c.BC))]; πληγῆς ἄρχειν strike the first blow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.2)]; τὰς π. στέγειν, of the shell of a tortoise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1295.)]
2 stroke by lightning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 857 (_plural_))]; πλαγαὶ σιδάρου strokes of axe or sword, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.246, “O.” 10(11).37; κλυδωνίου.. πληγαῖς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 796)]; στέρνων πλαγαί beating of breasts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 90 (_anapaest meter_))]; π. τῶν ὀδόντων strokes from boars' tusks, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.5)]; spearing of fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 824 (_plural_))]; of pig-sticking, οἱ κάπροι οἱ πρὸς τὴν π... ὠθούμενοι [Refs ([prev. author] “Euthd.” 294d)]: in singular, fight with clubs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.63.)]
3 stroke or impression on the ears or eyes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67b, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.490c, etc.; αἱ νοήσεις τύποι ἔσονται· εἰ δὲ τοῦτο, καὶ ἐπακτοὶ καὶ πληγαί 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.5.1.)]
4 impact of bodies, atoms, etc., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Archytas Tarentinus Philosophus 1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 308, “Placita Philosophorum” 1.4.2, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.6.19.)]
5 beat of the pulse, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.464.)]
6 metaphorically, blow, stroke of calamity, especially in war, ἐν μιᾷ π. κατέφθαρται.. ὄλβος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 251, compare “Hellenica Oxyrhynchia” 16.2; ἐν πληγαῖς ὄντες [prev. passage]; πληγὴν ὑπήνεγκεν ἡ πόλις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1270a33; πληγῇ περιπεπτωκέναι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 14.9.6; πληγαὶ βιότου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 933 (_anapaest meter_))]; π. Διός α heaven-sent plague, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ag.” 367 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 137 (_anapaest meter_))]; μὴ 'κ θεοῦ π. τις ἥκει[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 279; δμαθέντες πλαγαῖσι ποντίαισιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 908 (Lyric poetry))]; of the ten plagues of Egypt, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 5.9.4.)]